--- title: "Connect Fluent Support to Surplus Lines Tax API - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Customer\" fires in Fluent Support, your agent runs \"Calculate Surplus Lines Tax\" in Surplus Lines Tax API." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/fluent-support-to-surplus-lines-tax-api" --- # Connect Fluent Support to Surplus Lines Tax API When **New Customer** fires in [Fluent Support](https://apiant.ai/connections/fluent-support), your agent runs **Calculate Surplus Lines Tax** in [Surplus Lines Tax API](https://apiant.ai/connections/surplus-lines-tax-api). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Fluent Support **2** triggers Fluent Support **10** actions Surplus Lines Tax API **3** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Fluent Support and Surplus Lines Tax API to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Cursor Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser. 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Fluent Support can start in Surplus Lines Tax API - When **New Customer** in Fluent Support then **Calculate Surplus Lines Tax** in Surplus Lines Tax API - When **New Ticket** in Fluent Support then **Get historical tax rate** in Surplus Lines Tax API Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with Fluent Support and Surplus Lines Tax API ## Triggers and actions 2 triggers · 13 actions - Trigger **New Customer** Triggers when a new customer is added in Fluent Support. - Trigger **New Ticket** Triggers when a new support ticket is created in Fluent Support. - Action **Add Tag to Ticket** Adds an existing tag to a Fluent Support ticket. - Action **Close Ticket** Closes a Fluent Support ticket. - Action **Create Customer** Creates a new customer in Fluent Support with their name, email, contact details and an optional note. - Action **Create Ticket** Creates a new support ticket in Fluent Support for an existing customer. - Action **Get Ticket** Returns a Fluent Support ticket with its customer, responses and details. - Action **List Customers** Returns the customers in your Fluent Support help desk, optionally filtered by a search term. - Action **List Tickets** Returns support tickets from Fluent Support, optionally matching a search term. - Action **Reopen Ticket** Reopens a closed Fluent Support ticket. - Action **Reply to Ticket** Adds an agent reply or internal note to a Fluent Support ticket, optionally closing the ticket. - Action **Update Ticket** Updates one property of a ticket — its priority, customer priority, assigned agent or product. - Action **Calculate Surplus Lines Tax** Calculates the surplus lines tax, stamping fees and other statutory charges due on a policy premium for a given state. Returns the itemized breakdown, the total tax and the total amount due. - Action **Get historical tax rate** Returns the surplus lines tax rate, stamping fee and other statutory charges in force for a state on a given date. Leave the date empty for today's rates. - Action **Get Tax Rate** Returns the surplus lines tax rate, stamping fee and other statutory charges currently in force for a state. ## Each app on its own - [ **Fluent Support** WordPress helpdesk plugin for managing customer support tickets, with REST API and webhook integrations.](https://apiant.ai/connections/fluent-support) - [ **Surplus Lines Tax API** Surplus Lines Tax API is a calculator for surplus lines taxes, stamping fees, and regulatory charges across...](https://apiant.ai/connections/surplus-lines-tax-api) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Fluent Support - [ **Fluent Support to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/fluent-support-to-hubspot) - [ **Fluent Support to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/fluent-support-to-salesforce) - [ **Fluent Support to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Surplus Lines Tax API when something happens in Fluent Support? Any of Surplus Lines Tax API's 3 actions, including Calculate Surplus Lines Tax, Get historical tax rate and Get Tax Rate. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Surplus Lines Tax API to Fluent Support? Surplus Lines Tax API has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Fluent Support. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Surplus Lines Tax API's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Fluent Support or Surplus Lines Tax API? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use Fluent Support and Surplus Lines Tax API without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.